The RoanokeSlant

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas

Monday, December 23, 2013

Christians And Christianity Still Under Attack

Christmas is an appropriate time to
reflect on the ongoing assaults against Christianity that continues in the face
of those who are so adept at using the “Vinnie Barbarino” --- “WHAT assault?”

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During my early lifetime the
primary visible assaults were from communists in the Soviet Union and China.

Today they are from Radical Islam
and internally here in the US
from liberals and atheists and their associates in the government and media.

Hardly a day passes without
deadly attacks around the world and here in the US an ongoing effort to isolate
and marginalize.

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The assaults within our
country include the subtly of substituting Holiday for Christmas, the premise
that this nation was not founded on the Judeo-Christian traditions, that abortions
are morally OK, that homosexuality is compatible with Christian beliefs and
saying otherwise is hate-speech, the removal of Christian symbols from public view and the current transgressions of ObamaCare
into religious freedom.

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What is new and very disturbing
is that all these assaults are being espoused and supported by Obama and his
minions.

Never before have we had a
president that not only promotes these activities but strives to encompass them
into law.He also consistently and
consciously omits “Under God” at every opportunity including the reading of the
Gettysburg Address.How sad is that!

And never before have we had a president that spent 20 years attending a church whose leader publicly
declared “God Damn America”.

As a national policy Obama
has aided and abetted in turning much of the Middle East
over to the Muslim Brotherhood and their associates.This has resulted in an unprecedented jihad
against Christians across the region not seen since Charlemagne and the
Saracens (who were also Muslims).

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At this important Christian
Holiday all Christians should be proactive in their support for their religious
beliefs and protective of our Constitutional Rights to exercise and display our
Christianity.Not to do so is to
surrender and thereby loose our God given rights.

Over six million have lost
their insurance and we’re celebrating that today and tomorrow a few thousand
will be able to “enroll” or not and if “enrolled” they may or may not get an
insurance policy next week that they may or may not have paid for.During Obama’s talk yesterday the website was
“Down” --- but today is tomorrow and perhaps it’s back up.

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12-20-2013 Forbes was not so
warm and fuzzy – perhaps more cold and frizzy:

It’s hard to come up with
new ways to describe the Obama administration’s improvisational approach to the
Affordable Care Act’s troubled health insurance exchanges. But last night, the
White House made its most consequential announcement yet. The administration
will grant a “hardship exemption” from the law’s individual mandate, requiring
the purchase of health insurance, to anyone who has had their prior coverage
canceled and who “believes” that Obamacare’s offerings “are unaffordable.”
These exemptions will substantially alter the architecture of the law’s
insurance marketplaces.

Perhaps the following blog
items and their associated news items represent a more realistic view of the
ObamaCare situation and the new Gallup poll:Record 72 percent believe big government is USA's greatest
threat

Obama-Reality Starting To Sink-In

A new Gallup poll finds 72
percent of Americans feel big government poses a greater threat to the United
States in the future than big business or big labor, a record high since the
polling outfit began asking the question nearly 50 years ago

Obama, the DNC, the Liberal
Media and all their associates have touted the “Joy of Big Government” and a
majority of the American people drank that CoolAide for five years.

Now Obama and his team have
clearly demonstrated to even the most naive of us that the history of big
centralized socialist governments is being relived right before our eyes, and
the adverse consequences and unintended consequences are real and visible and
painful.

Hopefully the public’s awakening
will continue as the adverse consequences of the Obama administration’s actions
become even more visible to the average American.-

The following is another
example of the awakening:

USAToday, 12-20-2013, Pg 3A:
Poll: Americans want climate action

BUT backing for regulation has declined significantly

The poll showed marked
decreases in the public’s appetite for more regulations and restrictions.Harvard
Prof. Ansolabehere says that shift may be due to a decline in the public’s
confidence in government.

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Another current and personal
example of our wonderful benevolent big government’s behavior toward senior
citizens occurred this week when I asked a senior aged friend if he had taken
out the Required Minimum Distribution RMD from his IRA this year.He was somewhat confused about this.After checking he had not and then initiated
the withdrawal.If he had missed the end
of year deadline, only two weeks to go, his benevolent big government would
have fined him FIFTY PERCENT 50% of the distribution amount – and this is HIS
MONEY that he had saved from his paychecks during his working life.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Solar Power Working 9 to 5

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Roanoke Times, 12-20-2013, Pg 8: Solar City to back up its
solar with Tesla batteries.

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An interesting article that “begins” to address the issues
of intermittent and discontinuous green energy generation.Kudos to the RT for making this initial
effort.It’s very difficult for
green-energy and man-made global warming AGW proponents to address this issue
because it lays-bare the “open plan” that solar energy has presented to the
public so far.

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Two simple facts:
1. The solar supply is from 9 AM to 5 PM (during those good
sunlight days)
2. The customer wants 24/7 uninterrupted reliable electric
service
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Batteries have been used for vehicles since circa 1900.The concept is to save excess energy from the
generator/alternator in a battery for use when the engine is not running; then to
restart the engine and for lights and accessories.

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Fast forward to solar panels in 2013.For 24 hour service the solar panels need to
generate sufficient energy to supply the 9 to 5 requirements with enough excess
generation to be saved somehow for the 5 to 9 timeframe.

Some of the American Pravda
Media have now taken the most egregious action upon minority opinion and
expression since the USSR’s
Pravda shut-down all dissenting voices and views across the entire Soviet
Empire.

Only those who are afraid of
truth, open discussion and fair debate would lock-out from the public view and
discourse those who clearly have valid and informed and reasonable facts, data
and views.

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December 18, 2013, 02:35 pmReddit
forum bans climate change 'deniers'
By Laura Barron-LopezThe social news site Reddit is banning
climate change deniers from its science forum, a moderator for the site said.
Nathan Allen, the moderator for the forum which provides a digital space for people to
discuss recent, peer-reviewed science publications — wrote about the move to
ban skeptics of climate science on Grist. A representative for Reddit confirmed
the decision with The Hill.
While the science forum is a small section of Reddit, it has 4 million
subscribers, Allen noted, which is nearly twice the circulation of The New York
Times.He said the news industry should follow
suit.
"As moderators responsible for what millions of people see, we felt that
to allow a handful of commenters to so purposefully mislead our audience was
simply immoral." Allen wrote.
"So if a half-dozen volunteers can keep a page with more than 4 million
users from being a microphone for the antiscientific, is it too much to ask for
newspapers to police their own editorial pages as proficiently," he added.
The Los Angeles Times received heavy backlash for its decision in October to
stop printing letters sent in from "climate change deniers." The
outlet did not go so far as to block commenters, however.
-”we felt that to allow a handful of
commenters to so purposefully mislead our audience was simply immoral."
Allen wrote.
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Haven’t we heard this “righteous view of suppression” expressed before:
something about the Pope and Galileo!http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/horizon/sept98/galileo.htm
And these righteous censors aren’t even Cardinals or Bishops!
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Reddit and the LA Times are just two of the many media that suppresses
expression they don’t agree with.For
example the RT will not print my LTE’s or post my comments to their blogs.I’m sure this is just an oversight – can’t be
that I would come to their attention as worthy of blocking and shunning.Or as my elementary teacher was so quick to
tell me: “young man, who do you think you are”?

On the other hand my academic
and professional education and experience far exceeds Al Gore’s – and everyone
believes him! What's up with that?
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It would be very productive and informative for the folks at the RT and their
friends and associates to view the Power Point presentation on Global Warming
located at:http://www.roanokeslant.org/AGW-Skeptic2D/
and point out any content that is false and or misleading or that should be
barred from public view because it is “simply immoral”.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Why Are Obama’s Associates So Vile And Nasty?

-Latest New News:Roanoke Times, 12-19-2013, Pg 3: Network suspends "Duck Dynasty" star for replying to a question about sin: "Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there" -- etcTalk about zero-tolerance for negative speech -- A&E and the RT sure jumped on this Politically Incorrect Hillbilly didn't they! Not so much when it comes to all the following Liberal and Left-Wing Wingnuts. Something about fairness, equity and balance?-
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Obama’s new adviser (John
Podesta was just named as a new senior-level adviser to President Obama last
week) Podesta is under fire for comparing GOP to 'Jonestown'

Obama The Hypocrite And His Hippocratic Oath

ObamaCare has and will
continue to massively disrupt most of the healthcare insurance policies and healthcare of most Americans.

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The lie of the year by the
liar of the year is:

We were told that this was
going to be a nonintrusive operation that was just going to add the uninsured
to the healthcare system without disturbing all those who had insurance.

We’re just going in with a
catheter; this will not be open-heart surgery!

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The American people had to
accept this premise because we were told we had to pass it in order to read it.

The US government
has done these type contracts many times before and often ended the contract
with: “as long as the sun will shine, as long as the rivers will flow”.

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The latest Obama
proclamation is that the insurance companies are to grant insurance policies
effective January 1, 2014 to anyone who has “applied” to an exchange.No eligibility determination or premium
payment required.

What section of the
Constitution covers this dictatorial fiat?

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The insurance companies will
comply because there’s a section in ObamaCare that guarantees them tax-payer
tax-money compensation for any shortfall they might encounter implementing
ObamaCare.What a deal! Talk about a Chicago contract!

--Latest news: RT, 12-19-2013, Pg 4: Insurers extend first payment deadline.Isn't this just wonderful -- however -- my insurance companies for my health, auto, life and home have never granted me any dispensation from following the strict letter of the policies. In fact, I've never been given relief from paying my payments "on-time" by any of my creditors.Apparently voting Democrat has its major amenities and benefits! Who knew?--

12-20-2013: AP: ADMINISTRATION MAKES last-minute change allowing people whose insurance was cancelled to avoid the ObamaCare coverage mandate — and sign up for bare-bones policies if they wish — a move the insurance industry warns will create 'tremendous instability' in the market.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

ObamaCare: The Really Big Fast Climate Change

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Isn’t it interesting that
the purveyors and supporters of non-existent man-made global warming AGW and man-made
climate change are the same folks that have driven ObamaCare down the throats
of all Americans?

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Just as the discredited
man-made global warming hoax has caused major increases in the cost of living
of all Americans we now know that ObamaCare is causing major increases in the
cost and complexity of HealthCare insurance and HealthCare itself for most Americans.

Both of these misguided and
misdirected Obama-Socialist Jihads have in turn adversely impacted both
existing jobs and new job creation.

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There has been less than one
degree change in global temperatures during the past 150 years and no change in
the last 18 years and no scientific evidence that man-made CO2 causes either
measurable global warming or climate change.Just
like the false and failed ObamaCare “Lie of the Year” repeating this failed
hypothesis over and over does not make it true or valid.And all 7th grade earth-science
students know that daily, weekly, monthly and yearly Weather is NOT Climate!

Obama and his Pravda-Press repeating
over and over that “you can keep your insurance”, “you can keep your doctor”,
“your premiums will be the same or lower” is all heifer-dust as almost all
Americans now know.

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Poll: Already-Insured Blame ObamaCare for Higher
Premiums

“Already-insured Americans
and those not looking for government subsidies are blaming the Affordable Care
Act for rising premiums and higher deductibles on their plans. A new poll from
the Associated Press- GfK shows nearly half of respondents say their policies
are changing for the worse in 2014 with 69% reporting their premiums are going
up and 59% say their annual deductibles or copayments are increasing.
Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed say they blame the president’s
signature health-care legislation blame changes on the ACA.”

“So far, nearly six million
plans have been cancelled as a result of the ACA for failing to meet new plan
standards including 10 essential health benefits. Under the ACA, every
individual in the country must have coverage by the end of open enrollment
period on April 1 or they will face a penalty of $95 or 1% of their annual
income for failing to comply.”

Apparently it was critical
to the RT editors to do whatever was required to ensure that Obama won
reelection.

Not clear what part of
Journalistic Ethics that falls under?

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Small businesses are the job
creators, IF, they are not hobbled by the very actions Obama and the Democrats
have and are taking including thousands of draconian rules, regulations and
increased energy costs and the FUD fear, uncertainty and doubt created by
ObamaCare.

-Little wonder businesspeople
are afraid to expand and build and take-on additional risk and
responsibilities.

Even Obama found out that “shovel
ready” wasn’t “ready at all” because of massive amounts of bureaucratic rules,
regulations, processes and overhead.

He’s now complaining that
those very forces are behind the ObamaCare website and software debacle.Apparently you reap what you sew.

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Back in October 2011 this
blog published a partial list of the House job creation and preservation Bills
they had passed.This list has had major
additions since then.

Too bad the RT and their
associates in the Liberal Pravda Press didn’t understand who is promoting
private-sector job creation and who is promoting government growth at the
expense of real-jobs.

And what businessperson is
not overwhelmed by the specter of the magnitude of taxes that will be required
to stop the deficit and then pay down the $17 TRILLION debt.

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The good news may be that
the RT editors really are awakening to the realization that America has had
an economic system that has worked better than any other system in world history
and given the opportunity that Free Enterprise System can perform well again.

Obama Talks-up ObamaCare To Young People

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Obama urges young supporters
to talk up Obamacare.

“Sounding like a
motivational speaker, President Barack Obama asked young supporters on
Wednesday to encourage their peers to sign up for health coverage under his
embattled reforms known both affectionately and derisively as Obamacare.”

The ObamaCare “model”
requires large numbers of healthy young people to buy ObamaCare policies at
rates higher than they could have purchased them if there were no
ObamaCare.The “system” needs their “extra”
money to help off-set the money other uninsured will not be paying.

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Among other major issues
with ObamaCare this is not likely to happen, the founders of ObamaCare knew
that was unlikely, and the deficit will be made up with taxpayers-tax money.

All this while Kim continues
massive civil rights abuses against his people.

Photos show scale of North
Korea's repressive prison camps:CNN) --
North Korea is showing no signs of scaling back its fearsome labor camp system,
with torture, starvation, rape and death a fact of life for tens of thousand of
inmates, according to human rights group Amnesty International.

Where are the liberal media
cries of righteous indignation against Obama and Kerry and this administrations
relationship with animalistic regimes and leaders?

Something about a tree
falling in the forest.

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And what’s with Dennis Rodman
(Obama’s “unofficial” special emissary sent to North Korea to help “make peace”);
he’s heading to Pyongyang next week for training sessions ahead of a friendship
exhibition game scheduled for January 8, Kim’s birthday.

Let’s all reflect on the
major liberal media’s assertion that Obama is well suited to conduct foreign
affairs and is doing a wonderful job of stopping proliferation of nuclear
weapons and protecting ourselves and our friends and being a beacon for human
rights.

Boom! The Sound Of
Appeasement Of North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program

Mark Obenshain - A Fine Virginian And Outstanding Republican

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The following is extracted from an Email from Mark to his supporters

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The 30th annual Republican Advance was this weekend and I have to tell you:
the future of the Republican Party in Virginia is bright. At the dinner last
night, I shared, first and foremost, my gratitude for the many hundreds of
dedicated Virginians who began doing the hard work of the canvass scarcely
twelve hours after the polls closed on Election Night. --One thing that was clear from everyone I spoke with at the Advance is that we
must retain our commitment to common sense conservative principles of limited
government, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. Having a strong and
united voice from the Republican Party guided by those principles will be more
important than ever over the next few years.

But it’s not enough for us to be guided by those principles. We need to talk
about how they will make a difference in the daily lives of Virginians, and how
they will help us secure a better future. We need to communicate our vision –
one based on these shared principles -- which are expressed so well in the
Virginia Republican Creed.

As many of you know, when I was 16, I witnessed the largest political
convention in American history to that time, attended by more than ten thousand
delegates and lasting well past midnight. I’m sure I didn’t fully appreciate the
significance at the time, but the next morning, I sat at the John Marshall Hotel
with my Dad, Richard Obenshain, at a breakfast to celebrate his securing the
Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. At that breakfast, to the surprise of
many, one of his opponents, John Warner, came in, shook his hand, gave him a
campaign contribution and offered to help him in any way he could in the fight
to come.

They put their fight behind them.

This year, at another Republican convention, I ran against a dedicated public
servant, Delegate Rob Bell, for the nomination for Attorney General. And I was
grateful not only to those of you who supported me in the convention, but also
to those of you who supported Rob Bell – because we ALL came together and worked
together. You helped me and our Republican ticket by knocking on doors, making
phone calls, and helping with events across the Commonwealth.

It speaks to Rob’s character and his commitment to the conservative cause
that he was one of those fighting for our team. He was generous with his time,
support, and advice.

If we take one lesson from this year’s election, I urge you to keep in mind
that we need leaders who will set aside personal differences and disappointments
and dedicate themselves to the good of the party, the conservative movement, and
our great Commonwealth.

We need to build a unified party not by pointing fingers or kicking out those
who don’t agree with us on everything, but by uniting around the principles that
have brought success to Republicans – and more importantly, around good policies
that promote liberty and prosperity.

I grew up in Virginia politics in the 1960s and 1970s. There were times when
we joked about holding Committee meetings in phone booths. (Of course, now we
have a new generation that doesn’t even know what a phone booth is.) We
understood that the ONLY way for us to win elections in Virginia was to reach
out and to build coalitions.

We understood the need to give those who weren’t sure about Republicans a
clear message about how and why our values, our policies, and our principles
would address the issues they cared about most deeply.

Ronald Reagan often started his speeches by saying: “My fellow Republicans …
and those independents and Democrats who are looking for a better
future.”

Then as now, there were not enough Republicans to win. We won in 1980 and in
every other election in which we have prevailed by reaching out to conservative
independents and Democrats.

In Washington, D.C. today, we are seeing the end result of big government
arrogance and incompetence with the disastrous Obamacare rollout. After three
years and $640 million, the federal government could not even build a working
website. But even worse, despite the promises of President Obama and many
Democrats, we're now seeing hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans losing
health insurance plans they like and want to keep.

Next year, all of us together
are going to make sure we hold Senator Mark Warner accountable for being the
decisive vote that gave us Obamacare.

But it's not enough to oppose big government blunders and abuses. We must
work to create jobs – good jobs – so we can give Virginians a hand up, not a
handout.

We must work for educational choice, accountability and opportunity for
communities where schools are failing their kids – and letting members of those
communities that don’t traditionally support Republicans know that we are
fighting for them and for their kids.

We must stand for the protection of innocent human life.

We must argue that you are better equipped than the government to decide how
to spend your hard earned resources.

We must continue to stand up for the 2nd amendment.

We must reach out to entrepreneurs and small business owners in immigrant
communities before it’s an election year to explain not just why the other side
is wrong, but how our policies will help them grow their businesses and create
greater opportunity for their kids.

We are frankly playing catchup in a lot of these growing communities. These
are the political mission fields. We must start this work.

Whether as your Attorney General or in some other role, I’m going to continue
to fight shoulder to shoulder with you for conservative principles: mainstream
principles that get results . . . and win elections.

Keep the Faith, God bless you, and thank you for everything that you do for
the cause of freedom in Virginia.